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Check out some examples of how other HCD Connect community members are putting the methods and tools in the HCD Toolkit into action. When you're ready, add in your own experiences!

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June 19, 2013
Improving Women’s livelihood source and Family Nutrition through Kitchen Gardens

Living and listening to women helped us to realize they already have the farming skills and we have to build on that than introduceing new income generation programmes.

  • Renuka KR
  • Centre for Women's Development and Research-CWDR
  • Story Location: Tamil Nadu, India
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June 18, 2013
Umuduru: A Village Rediscovered

A family rediscovers their small, eroding village in Nigeria to set the foundation for an ecosystem of positive social change around a sustainable farm.

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June 18, 2013
Promoting school-community linkages, education access through low cost agriculture practices and skills sharing

Chihwiti School garden project is creating a centre of hope and skills sharing for the most vulnerable children and villagers living around the school through low cost agriculture for income generation and improved access to basic education.

  • Fiona Munyebvu
  • True Vision Foundation of Zimbabwe
  • Story Location: Chinhoyi, Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe
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June 18, 2013
Save water secure the future

When water is made accessible then household food sufficiency is enhaced

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June 18, 2013
User feedback from first prototype tests

This is a brief overview of the lessons I learnt during a user feedback phase of my project. The project is the design and development of a houshold farming kit.

  • Kyle Brand
  • University of Johannesburg
  • Story Location: Kanana, Orkney, North West, South Africa
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June 17, 2013
Launching a char social enterprise in northern Haiti to bring renewable energy and sustainable soil amendments to small farmers.

Carbon Roots International used Human Centered Design principles—both unintentionally and on purpose—to create a char business model that includes a number of actors across the value chain.

  • Eric Sorensen
  • Carbon Roots Internaitonal
  • Story Location: Quartier-Morin, Nord, Haiti
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June 16, 2013
Creating Wealth for Rural Youth in Cameroon through ICT-Based Food Cooperatives

Can the use of ICTs help get youths more interested in agriculture, get youth farmers better organized, cut waste caused by poor storage and decay, and eventually produce more food,  more wealth and jobs?

  • Protus Nouck
  • Story Location: Mutengene, Southwest, Cameroon
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June 16, 2013
Food Security for vulnerable communities in Bogotá, COL

Helping to provide the knowledge, supplies and the infrastructure to make urban plots in determinated places around the city.

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June 15, 2013
rice can change living standards of the farmers

i beleive that once you increase the value of rice crops at the farmer level can change his/her life

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June 15, 2013
Mobilizing Youth for Community Change

We train high school students to attack community problems even as high school students, but are seeking curriculum development advice.

  • Adam Dunn
  • North Carolina State University
  • Story Location: North Carolina
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June 15, 2013
Fonio Revived in Northern Ghana

To revive and promote the production of fonio to increase food and income security of small holder women and men farmers in Northern Ghana

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